Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcpWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00397 | $0.00397 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00159 | $0.00159 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00079 | $0.00079 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00040 | $0.00040 |
Grade A, and why
whatdotheyknow-mcp AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl https://whatdotheyknow-mcp.fly.dev/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json What it actually says
AGENTS.md — whatdotheyknow-mcp
AI agent instructions for working in this repo. See /home/bch/dev/ops/OPS.md for credentials, fleet overview, and release tooling.
Repo shape
Single server.py. Tools for searching FOI requests, authorities, and drafting WhatDoTheyKnow submissions.
Not on PyPI — deployed to Fly only.
Deploy
fly deploy --ha=false
Single instance, lhr region. App name: whatdotheyknow-mcp. Fly.io account: [email protected].
Version bump
- Update
versioninpyproject.toml - Update version string in the
smithery_server_cardroute inserver.py - Commit and push (no PyPI release needed)
fly deploy --ha=false- Cut a new Glama release
Standard routes (must always be present)
/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json— Smithery metadata/.well-known/glama.json— Glama maintainer claim/health— Fly health check
Verify after deploy:
curl https://whatdotheyknow-mcp.fly.dev/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
curl https://whatdotheyknow-mcp.fly.dev/.well-known/glama.json
curl https://whatdotheyknow-mcp.fly.dev/health
README badge order
SafeSkill → Glama card → Smithery
(No PyPI badge — not published to PyPI)
Do not
- Do not use
FASTMCP_PORT— the server readsPORTenv var only - Do not set
internal_portin fly.toml to anything other than 8080 - Do not commit API keys — all secrets are in Fly secrets (
fly secrets list)
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 2mo ago First seen · 51 lines · 397 tokens per session scan A 7e62ef525bfa
whatdotheyknow-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 397 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
whatdotheyknow-mcp AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| whatdotheyknow-mcp AGENTS.mdpaulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp | Instructions file | 0 | 3mo ago | MIT | A | 397 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |